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Administrator account protection

My Administrator account turned to Guest accountHey guys. Im having a problem with my computer!somehow my administrator account has turned to a guest account. Today I tried to unistall a program and it didnt let me saying i needed to be admin. :(:(. Also I tried turning it to admin by using cmd command but it says access not allowed.

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User Administrator Account won't allow Administrator PrivilagesHi,
I'm running Win 7 Pro x64 and Office 2007. I installed a Bluetooth transceiver recently and developed a problem when replying to email in Outlook 2007. When I select an email to reply, the email editor pops up with a "Custom UI Runtime Error in Send to Bluetooth." The solution to this issue...

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User account corrupted, administrator account not accessibleMy Windows7 suddenly displayed a default desktop. I then did an unsuccessful system restore, tried the undo and got stuck.
From there on, when I want to log in I end up at the error message "The user profile service failed the logon. User profile cannot be loaded".
I tried to activate the...

BSOD Help and Support

Quasi-Administrator account versus a true Adminstrator Account?Hello to all,
I am using W7 Ultimate 64 bits. I am have a what has been described on this forum as a quasi-administrator account. It is not called Administrator but seems to function as one. UAC prompts, when admin rights required in user accounts, this account's password will fulfil the...

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Renaming the administrator account back to AdministratorHi, I have an Acer laptop which came with one user account, Acer, with the administrator right. When I tried to rename it to Administrator or administrator, I got an messages saying that user name has already existed.
How do I rename Acer to Administrator? Thanks.

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Default User Account (Administrator) acts like Standard AccountI am using Windows 7 Pro 64x and apparently the default user account (Owner) that I use is not working correctly. Unless I have UAC set to Never Notify, I cannot open Control Panel or UAC again. When I try, I get the error message listed below. I have created a second user account as Administrator...